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Jun 4, 2023 新風出版社編輯部
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A Malay language guidebook for Chinese language speakers published in Singapore, 1959.
Topics: Singapore, Malaysia, Malay language, Malaysian, language, guidebooks
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Jun 4, 2023 黃公育
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A Chinese language guide to fast handwriting of Chinese characters, published in Hong Kong, 1955.
Topics: Chinese language, Chinese, guidebooks, Hong Kong, 1950s
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Jun 2, 2023 教育供應社有限公司編輯委員會
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Chinese language primary school textbook published in Singapore 1959
Topics: Singapore, textbooks, Chinese language, history
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Jun 2, 2023 黃道一
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Chinese language book on nutrition by Huang Daoyi published in Hong Kong.
Topics: nutrition, Chinese language, China, Hong Kong
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Jun 2, 2023 Gee Ming Lai 易夢麗
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Malay language textbook for Chinese speakers. No publication date, but preface mentions coming establishment of Malaysia in 1963. Cover includes Merdeka Lions from Merdeka bridge, Singapore, placed there 1956. The stamp of previous owner is for a dentist in Singapore. It was likely published in Singapore between 1956-1963.
Topics: Malaysian language, Singapore, Malaysian, textbook, Malaysia, Malay, textbooks
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Jun 2, 2023 莊俞; 沈頤
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Primary school Chinese language textbook. Published by the 商務印書館
Topics: Chinese language, Chinese, China, textbooks
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Jun 1, 2023 The World Red Swastika Society
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世界紅卍字會宣言 “Origin and Progress of the World Red Swastica Society" Singapore, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh This Singapore published pamphlet offers an overview and manifesto of the World Red Swastika Society, a religious and philanthropic organization founded in 1922. A history of the organization is provided by C.T. Wang and dated 1949 so it is published sometime after that date.
Topics: Red Swastika Society, religion, redemptive societies, Singapore
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Jun 1, 2023 唐芸洲
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A guide to writing letters published. Possibly published in 1921.
Topics: education, letter writing, guidebook, Republic of China
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Jun 1, 2023 王世明
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A Singapore booklet to teach the Zhuyin / Bopomofo phonetic symbols for reading Chinese.
Topics: bopomofo, zhuyin fuhao, 注音符號, 注音符号, Chinese language, Chinese, Singapore, textbooks
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Jan 22, 2023 内閣情報部
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The Shashin Shūhō was a pictorial propaganda magazine produced by the Japanese government's Cabinet Information Office.
Topics: 写真週報, 週刊, 情報局, 雑誌, 日本帝国, 昭和, Japan, magazine, periodicals,...
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Jan 22, 2023 内閣情報部
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The Shashin Shūhō was a pictorial propaganda magazine produced by the Japanese government's Cabinet Information Office.
Topics: 写真週報, 週刊, 情報局, 雑誌, 日本帝国, 昭和, Japan, magazine, periodicals,...
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Jan 22, 2023 内閣情報部
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The Shashin Shūhō was a pictorial propaganda magazine produced by the Japanese government's Cabinet Information Office.
Topics: 写真週報, 週刊, 情報局, 雑誌, 日本帝国, 昭和, Japan, magazine, periodicals,...
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Jan 21, 2023 内閣情報部
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The Shashin Shūhō was a pictorial propaganda magazine produced by the Japanese government's Cabinet Information Office.
Topics: 写真週報, 週刊, 情報局, Japan, magazine, periodicals, propaganda, Japanese, 日本帝国,...
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Jan 20, 2023 包思井 Bao Sijing
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二千個馬來語基本詞彙 包思井編 印馬書店發行 A small dictionary and language guide to the Malaysian language for Chinese speakers, published in 1951 edited by Bao Sijing
Topics: Malaysian language, Malaysia, British Malaya, Chinese, dictionary, guidebook
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Jan 1, 2023 Unknown
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Incomplete copy of a guidebook that offers language reference for speaking to domestic laborers in Spanish. Publication information unknown.
Topics: Spanish language, domestic labor
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Jan 1, 2023 Norman, Christopher
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published by the Norway Travel Association
Topics: Norway, tourism, guidebook
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Jan 1, 2023 韩济生, 范正祥
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Hygiene and Health reference booklet for children. 少年百科丛书 中国青年出版社
Topics: China, hygiene, health, cultural revolution, 卫生
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Dec 31, 2022 馮玉奇
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A Chinese language handbook on writing love letters by Feng Yuqi in the form of model examples. Publication information and date not available. Possibly 1950s.
Topics: guidebooks, Chinese, romance, love letters
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Dec 31, 2022 錢選青, 潘江
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Primary school civics textbook for ethnic Chinese in British Malaya (Malaysia) published in Singapore by 中華書局 初級第六册 馬來亞華僑小學課程標準適用
Topics: textbook, overseas Chinese, British Malaya, Malaysia, 教科書, 華僑, 新加坡, Singapore
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Dec 31, 2022 姚紹華
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Chinese language primary school history textbook for overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. 高級第四册 修正課程標準適用 最新南洋華僑 Published by 中華書局 in Singapore
Topics: textbook, overseas Chinese, Singapore, Chinese history, 華僑, 新加坡, 教科書
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Dec 30, 2022 Traditional
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Bilingual Chinese and Malay language children's story book. Published by the Commercial Press in Singapore, printed in Hong Kong. Story from an Yi ethnicity traditional folktale.
Topics: Malay, children's literature, Singapore, Chinese, Chinese diaspora, 彝族, Yi people
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Dec 26, 2022 South Manchurian Railway
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South Manchuria Railway produced report on activities in Manchuria on eve of Japanese invation.
Topics: Japan, Manchuria, Manchukuo, Japanese Empire, China
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Dec 24, 2022 Hume, Bill; Annarino, John
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This collection of cartoons by Bill Hume is accompanied by commentary by John Annarino. Written from the perspective of US soldiers returning home to the United States after their service in the US occupation of Japan from 1945-1952, the cartoons depict soldiers who are supposedly so assimilated to certain cultural practices of Japan that they have amusing encounters on their return. 
Topics: Japan, occupation perion
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Dec 24, 2022 Hume, Bill
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A collection of cartoons and commentary by Bill Hume and John Annarino purporting to depict the relationship between American soldiers and Japanese women in the form of a highly sexualized racial caricature "Babysan" during the US occupation of Japan.
Topics: Japan, occupation period, US military, sexism, racism
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Dec 23, 2022 United States Armed Forces
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Magazine published by the United States Armed Forces Information & Education Section during the US led occupation of Japan.
Topics: japan, occupation, SCAP
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Dec 16, 2022 内閣情報部
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The Shashin Shūhō was a pictorial propaganda magazine produced by the Japanese government's Cabinet Information Office.
Topics: 写真週報, 週刊, 情報局, Japan, magazine, periodicals, propaganda
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Dec 15, 2022 Jian Bozan, Shao Xunzheng, Hu Hua
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Survey history of China published by the Chinese Foreign Languages Press originally published before the Cultural Revolution (First Edition 1964) but released in a second edition shortly after the Cultural Revolution in 1981.
Topics: china, chinese history
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Dec 15, 2022 宗亮寰, 呂金錄, 沈百英, 韋慤
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南洋華僑小學適用 General knowledge primer for overseas Chinese primary school children (vol 6) Published by 商務印書館 in Hong Kong, 1941.
Topics: textbook, Overseas Chinese, 新加坡, 教科書, 華僑, 華人
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Dec 15, 2022 秉志、胡先驌、黃素封、林潔嬌
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Primary school general knowledge text book published in Singapore for ethnic Chinese children, possibly around 1940. Published by 南洋書局 in header: 遵照修正课程标准编辑 Vol. 2
Topics: textbook, Singapore, Chinese, 華僑, 華人, 南僑, 教科書
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Dec 14, 2022 The Compilation Group of the History of Modern China Series
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History of the Boxer Rebellion published at the close of the Cultural Revolution (1976) by the Chinese Foreign Languages Press as part of a series of booklets in the "History of Modern China Series" with no clear authors listed other than a "Compilation Group" made up of historians from Fudan University and Shanghai Teachers' University.
Topics: 义和团运动, china, chinese history, Boxer Rebellion
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Dec 14, 2022 The Compilation Group of the History of Modern China Series
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History of the Opium War published at the close of the Cultural Revolution (1976) by the Chinese Foreign Languages Press as part of a series of booklets in the "History of Modern China Series" with no clear authors listed other than a "Compilation Group" made up of historians from Fudan University and Shanghai Teachers' University.
Topics: china, chinese history, Opium War, 鸦片战争
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Dec 12, 2022 The Compilation Group of the History of Modern China Series
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History of the Taiping Rebellion published at the close of the Cultural Revolution (1976) by the Chinese Foreign Languages Press as part of a series of booklets in the "History of Modern China Series" with no clear authors listed other than a "Compilation Group" made up of historians from Fudan University and Shanghai Teachers' University.
Topics: china, history, Taiping Rebellion, 太平天国之乱, 太平天国运动, Qing dynasty, chinese...
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Dec 12, 2022 The Compilation Group of the History of Modern China Series
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History of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 published at the close of the Cultural Revolution (1976) by the Chinese Foreign Languages Press as part of a series of booklets in the "History of Modern China Series" with no clear authors listed other than a "Compilation Group" made up of historians from Fudan University and Shanghai Teachers' University.
Topics: china, 1911 revolution, 辛亥革命
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Oct 22, 2022 Tato Cumming, Gaspar
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Pro-Japanese propaganda booklet on Japanese controlled Manchuria. Published by Ediciones Alonso in Madrid.
Topics: japan, manchuria, manchukuo, manshū, 満州
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Oct 9, 2022 Nishikawa, Issōtei
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Volume 11 of the Japan Tourist Library series published by the pre-war Board of Tourist Industry, Japan Government Railways.
Topics: flowers, ikebana, japan
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Oct 9, 2022 Makino, T. and Oka, Genzirō
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Volume 20 of the Japan Tourist Library series published by the pre-war Board of Tourist Industry, Japan Government Railways.
Topics: Japan, flowers, ikebana
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Oct 9, 2022 Akimoto, Shunkichi
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Volume 17 of the Japan Tourist Library series published by the pre-war Board of Tourist Industry, Japan Government Railways.
Topics: Japan, family, tourism
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Oct 9, 2022 Hatiro, Yamagami
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Volume 31 of the Japan Tourist Library series published by the pre-war Board of Tourist Industry, Japan Government Railways. by Hatiro (Hachirō), Yamagami
Topics: japan, armor
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Oct 9, 2022 Ōrui, N. and Toba, M.
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Volume 9 of the Japan Tourist Library series published by the pre-war Board of Tourist Industry, Japan Government Railways.
Topics: Japan, castles, tourism
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Oct 9, 2022 South Manchuria Railway Company
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Japanese wartime propaganda booklet published by the South Manchruia Railway Company, published a few months after the opening of full scale hostilities in the Second Sino-Japanese War. China Incident Series - No. 4 南満州鉄道株式会社
Topics: Japan, Manchuria, Manshu, mantetsu, 満鉄, 満州
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Oct 9, 2022 With, Cläre
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From the series Länder und Völker Ein bilderatlas in Einzelheften Published by Müller & J. Kiepenheuer Potsdam
Topics: Japan, atlas
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Aug 18, 2022 China Handbook Editorial Board
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Detailed government handbook on the Republic of China published at a time when the ROC had been pushed back to the island of Taiwan during its civil war with communist forces.
Topics: China, handbook, Republic of China
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Aug 17, 2022 Japan Gazette
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The Japan Year Book is produced by the English language periodical the Japan Gazette. It contains a wide variety of reference information about Japan.
Topic: japan
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Aug 17, 2022 落合直文
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This is a Japanese secondary school textbook reader for Japanese language published in 1906, volume 9.
Topics: Japan, textbooks, Japanese language, secondary school, 日本, 中学, 国語, 教科書
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Aug 17, 2022 文部省
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Japanese middle school reader textbook published by the Ministry of Education.
Topics: Japan, textbooks, 日本, 教科書, 明治
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Aug 17, 2022 中目覚
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Japanese geography textbook. Vol 1.
Topics: Japan, textbooks, geography, 日本, 地理, 教科書
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Aug 17, 2022 James King Steele
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Volume XI Issue 4 (January 1922) of Japan magazine, published by James King Steele
Topics: japan, magazine
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Aug 17, 2022 Nakamura, Kōya
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Survey history of Japan by Nakamura, Kōya (trans. M. G. Mori) published by the Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways in 1939.
Topics: Japan, history, tourism
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Aug 16, 2022 US Army
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US Army handbook for military personnel serving in Japan published in October, 1952, during the Korean war, and only a few months after the end of the US occupation of Japan earlier in the year.
Topics: japan, US military, Korean war
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Aug 16, 2022 Martha Fulton Sager
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Children's book with information about Japan. Arranged by Martha Fulton Sager. Drawings by Horace F. King. Published by The Educational Printing House, Inc.
Topics: japan, children's book, children, uncle ben
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Aug 16, 2022 Japan Government Railways
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Travel brochure for Japan. No date, but mention in the pamphlet of the preparations for the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan, which was ultimately not held, something that would have been known from the summer of 1938.
Topics: Japan, tourism
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Aug 16, 2022 Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways
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Tourist brochure for Japan published sometime between the opening of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937) and the end of 1941. However, the selection of Japan for the 1940 is mentioned in the pamphlet, which was cancelled in the summer of 1938.
Topics: Japan, tourism
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Jun 13, 2022 Richard Winstedt
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Readings for students learning the Malay language. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London.
Topics: Malay language, Malaysian, Malay, language, textbook
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Jun 13, 2022 McHugh, James Noel
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A "Bazaar" Malay language textbook first issued in 1945. This is the third revised edition from 1948. Printed by Kelly & Walsh Ltd., in Singapore.
Topics: Malay language, Malaysia, British Malaya, Malay
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Jun 13, 2022 A. W. Hamilton
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Malay language textbook, first published 1940 in Australia by Australiasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney. This is the fourth edition, 1944.
Topics: Malay, Malaysian, British Malaya, language, textbook, Malay language
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May 25, 2022 Kobayashi, Yoshio
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German language travel account of a Japanese youth group in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Topics: japan, south seas
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May 25, 2022 Hermann Lufft
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A book on "Japan's strategic position" published in Nazi Germany.
Topic: japan germany
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Apr 30, 2022 Chinese Ministry of Information
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China Handbook 1937-1943 戰時中華志 A Comprehensive Survey of Major Developments in China in Six Years of War
Topics: china, sino-japanese war, chinese government
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Apr 29, 2022 H. S. K. Yamaguchi, 山口正造
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"Being descriptions of the characteristics, history, legendary, tradition, drama, images, shrines, temples, customs, temples, manners, besides numerous other subjects" The book says it is by an H. S. K. Yamaguchi from the Fujiya Hotel. First published 1937, reprinted, 1940, 1946/1947. The preface claims that it has no relation to the book "Their Japan"
Topics: Japan, travel, 山口正造, 富士屋ホテル
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Apr 28, 2022 国際情報社
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The Pictorial World magazine (Japan).
Topics: Japan, magazine, 雑誌, 画報
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Apr 27, 2022 国際情報社
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The Pictorial World magazine (Japan).
Topics: Japan, magazine, 雑誌, 画報
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Apr 23, 2022 Japan Government Railways
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Japanese travel brochure for Japan Government Railways.
Topics: Japan, travel, brochure, JR
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Apr 23, 2022 日本旅行協会
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Pamphlet with ryokan (hotel) listings for Japan and its colonial possessions with price and transportation information.
Topics: Japan, travel, hotels, pamphlet, 日本, 旅行, 旅館, JTB
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Apr 19, 2022 国際情報社
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The Pictorial World magazine (Japan).
Topics: Japan, magazine, 雑誌, 画報
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Apr 19, 2022 国際情報社
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The Pictorial World magazine (Japan).
Topics: Japan, magazine, 雑誌, 画報
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Apr 18, 2022 国際情報社
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The Pictorial World magazine.
Topics: Japan, magazine, 雑誌, 画報
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Apr 18, 2022 国際情報社
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The Pictorial World magazine.
Topics: Japan, magazine, 雑誌, 画報
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Apr 16, 2022 Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
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Foreign affairs and cultural journal produced by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Topics: japan, journal
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Apr 16, 2022 A Japanese Scholar
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The Japan Chronicle Chronicle Reprints - No. 1 Kobe, Japan
Topics: Japan, religion, Ōmoto-kyō, 大本教
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Apr 16, 2022 南満州鉄道株式会社
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Japanese pamphlet with information on travel to Northeast China/Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Topics: Japan, travel, China, manchuria, manshu, 満州
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Apr 16, 2022 北日本汽船株式会社
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Travel pamphlet on travel to Northeast China/Manchuria.
Topics: travel, japan, manchuria, manshu, china
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Apr 16, 2022 Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
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Foreign affairs and culture journal produced by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan.
Topic: japan
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Feb 8, 2022 大阪商船
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This is a March, 1938 tourist brochure for the Osaka ocean liner. It offers information for tourists to northern China at a time when Japan is consolidating its military occupation of this area of China, with a number of locations listed that had only been under Japanese control for a few weeks or months.
Topics: 北支, 中国, 日本帝国, 日中戦争, China, Japan, Japanese occupation, Japanese empire,...
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Feb 5, 2022 T. Kawata
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N.Y.K. Official Guide Glimpses of the East: International Exposition of Japan March-August 1938-1939 Tokyo-Yokohama N.Y.K. Line
Topics: Japan, exposition, advertising, travel
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Feb 5, 2022
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A 1933 pamphlet for the Osaka shōsen ocean liner with details of its Japanese domestic and various international routes.
Topics: travel, osaka, ocean liner, pamphlet
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Feb 4, 2022 近海郵船株式会社
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This is a 1930 information pamphlet with information about passenger liners from Japan to Japanese controlled colonial Taiwan, between Kobe, Moji-ku in Fukuoka prefecture, and Keelong.
Topics: travel, ocean liner, japan, taiwan, kobe, keelong
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Feb 4, 2022 日本郵船株式会社
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This 1937 pamphlet for the N.Y.K ocean liner is a passenger guide with the rules and guidelines for passenger behavior during their voyage.
Topics: travel, ocean liner, japan, n.y.k., ships, pamphlet
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Feb 1, 2022 N.Y.K. Line (Japan Mail)
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N.Y.K Japan-Europe Sailing Schedule Feb 1938 - Mar 1939 and Revised Passage Tarrif N.Y.K. Line (Japan Mail)
Topics: travel, japan, europe
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Feb 1, 2022 N.Y.K Line (Japan Mail)
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Tariffs & General Information for the N.Y.K. Line Orient-California Orient-Vancouver-Seattle South American West Coast
Topics: travel, ships, japan, usa, pamphlet
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Jan 31, 2022 紀文
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This is a guidebook for Japanese occupied Xinjing/Shinkyō/Changchun from 1939 (Kangde 6).
Topics: 新京, 滿洲, Japanese Empire, guidebooks, Changchun, Xinjing, Shinkyō
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Jan 31, 2022
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大正写真工芸所 和歌山市 文献信息 1-15 大連港に入る 16-16 大連港埠頭 18-18 船客待合所 20-20 埠頭事務所と山懸通と寺内町 22-22 二取引所と税関 24-24 中央大広場 26-26 ヤマトホテル 28-28 大連警察署と鮮銀支店 大連市役所と正金支店 30-30 満鐵病院 32-32 満鐵本社 34-34 浪速町通 36-36 大和通と山懸通 38-38 常盤橋通と伊勢町 40-40 連鎖商店街大観 42-42 連鎖商店街 44-44 忠靈塔 46-46...
Topics: Dalian, Dairen, Japanese Empire, Manchuria, 大連
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Jan 31, 2022
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Collection of postcards from Shinkyō/Xinjing/Changchun Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Topics: Manchuria, Manshū, Shinkyō, Xinjing, 満州, 新京
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Jan 31, 2022
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A collection of postcards from Japanese occupied Xinjing/Shinkyō/Changchun "Views of Hsinching"
Topics: Manchuria, Manshū, Shinkyō, Xinjing, 満州, 新京
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Jan 31, 2022
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Collection of postcards from Shinkyō/Xinjing/Changchun in Japanese occupied Manchuria
Topics: Manchuria, Manshū, 満州, 新京
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Jan 31, 2022 満洲弘済会奉天支所
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Color postcard collection from Shinkyō/Changchun/Xinjing in Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Topics: Manchuria, Manshū, Shinkyō, Changchun, Xinjing, 新京, 満洲
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Jan 31, 2022
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高野正夫 满洲国新京 文献信息 最新新京概觀 1-7 はしがき 8-9 新京驛の景觀 10-11 整然たる中央通の街景 驛前より見たる中央通り 12-13 明朗なる日本橋通の街景 14-15 祝町の街景 吉野町『新京銀座』 16-17 日本橋通、南廣場の盛觀 18-19 神嚴の気漲る新京神社の聖觀 20-21 武勳千歳に輝く忠靈塔 22-23 繁榮殷賑を極めるダイヤ街の盛觀 24-25 帝都、新京市街の一部 26-27...
Topics: Manchuria, travel, photographs, Changchun, Shinkyō, 満洲, 新京
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Jan 30, 2022 満鉄 鉄道総局
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Travel brochure for Shinkyō/Xinjing/Changchun from Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Topics: Shinkyō, Xinjing, Changchun, travel, pamphlet, brochure, tour guide, Manchuria, Manshū, Japanese...
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Jan 30, 2022 南満州鉄道株式会社
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南満州鉄道株式会社 1933 travel brochure from Japanese occupied Manchuria published by the South Manchurian Railroad company.
Topics: Dalian, Dairen, Manchuria, 満洲, 大連, 大连, travel, tour guides, pamphlet
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Jan 5, 2022 US Navy
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CINCPAC-CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Command / Pacific Ocean Area) Bulletin No. 209-45. 1 September 1945 RESTRICTED
Topics: us occupation of japan, japan, guidebooks
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Jan 3, 2022 Sakai,Atsuharu
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Japan in a Nutshell: Religion, Culture, Popular Practices Volume I Published by Yamagata Printing Co. during the US occupation of Japan. From the Foreword:  "This book does not pretend to give any deep theory or profound philosophy that Japan may have; but it describes simple every-day affairs which will attract the attention of an average foreign national travelling in this country, as well as some traditions, legends and folklore, typical of Japanese psychology."
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Jan 2, 2022 Tamura, Tsuyoshi
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Published by the Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai (The Society for International Cultural Relations 国際文化振興会). This is a reprint from 1947. Copy included inserted clippings of "Japanese Garden: Designs and Devices" by Nakazawa, Ken Under the list of illustrations (p22 of PDF), see small note pasted into the volume listing gardens destroyed during the Second World War.
Topics: Japan, gardens, gardening, landscape gardening
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Jan 1, 2022 Ed Doughty
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The cartoons by Ed Doughty in this collecton were published in the US military publication Stars and Stripes from 1945 to 1946 during the US occupation of Japan. The cartoons in this collection include derogatory and highly stereotyped depictions of the Japanese. In addition, Japanese women are usually depicted as objects of American desire. This historical source provides examples of racist and sexist images of the occupied prevalent during the American occupation (1945-1952) that may be used...
Topics: Japan, US occupation, cartoons
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Jan 1, 2022 Japan Travel Bureau
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Travel guide for the Kansai region of Japan published during the American occupation period.
Topics: Japan, travel, guidebook, tourism, 日本, 旅行
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Jan 1, 2022 Japan Travel Bureau
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Tourist handbook for the Kantō area of Japan.
Topics: Japan, travel, tourism, guidebooks, 日本, 旅行, 関東
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Dec 30, 2021 Kisida, Hideto
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Third Edition (1940) Board of Tourist Industry  Japanese Government Railways
Topics: Japan, architecture
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Dec 29, 2021 Rudy, Stella M.
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From the first page:  This little book has grown out of the author's intimate knowledge of Chinese people and their ways, much of which was gained from a fifteen-year residence in China teaching Chinese children. It does not attempt to cover the less representatively Chinese territories, Tibet and Sinkiang. 
Topics: china, children
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Dec 29, 2021 May, Stella Burke
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From the first page: People who visit the great cities of Japan-Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and Yokohama-sometimes say, Japan is becoming very western. Soon it will be as modern as New York." That is because they see houses built like houses in the United States, schools with desks and chairs like those in American schools, and pupils wearing clothes of western style; because they hear American song sand see motion pictures from Hollywood. But after the visitor has traveled over a large part of...
Topics: children, japan
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Dec 29, 2021 de Garis, Frederic
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Being Brief Descriptions Of Noteworthy Phases Of Japanese Life, Of Many Of The Customs,   Festivals, Arts And Crafts Of The Japanese .  Also Descriptions Of The Principal Places Usually Visited By Tourists, Besides Places   Away From Well Trodden Trails And Numerous Other Subjects First published 1936, 3rd edition 1946. Published by Kichigawa Shoten. Pu `P
Topics: Japan, tourism, travel, guidebooks
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Dec 29, 2021 Japan Travel Bureau
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Japan Travel Bureau  Postwar edition published in 1946; reprinted in 1947, 1948. Entirely rewritten edition published in July, 1952; revised in October, 1952; reprinted in May, 1953 revised in October, 1953
Topics: Japan, tourism, travel, guidebooks